'Inbox by Gmail' Now Open to Everyone, Updated With Trip Bundles and More

[Staywhatyouare2]

This is why I have been using Mailbox for so long. I can manage all of my accounts at once and they actually push new emails. I was hoping there would be another solution since Mailbox does not support the Apple Watch yet. I get the notifications but cannot read the emails.

Is there no way to truly get Apple's Mail App to push emails to your iPhone or Apple Watch? Does it not work because it is linked through a Gmail account even though I'm not using the Gmail App? That wouldn't make complete sense because I can get my Gmail Accounts to push through the Mailbox App.

 

[C DM]

This is why I have been using Mailbox for so long. I can manage all of my accounts at once and they actually push new emails. I was hoping there would be another solution since Mailbox does not support the Apple Watch yet. I get the notifications but cannot read the emails.

Is there no way to truly get Apple's Mail App to push emails to your iPhone or Apple Watch? Does it not work because it is linked through a Gmail account even though I'm not using the Gmail App? That wouldn't make complete sense because I can get my Gmail Accounts to push through the Mailbox App.

You can get fetch but not push basically using Apple's Mail app for regular Gmail accounts. Mailbox can do it by doing something along the lines of storing your credentials and basically using their servers to check on your behalf and then push notifications to you--basically they are middleman as far as accessing your email.

 

[JPark]

I love the tabs in Gmail. The iOS Gmail app works well but really needs an update. I have no interest in a zero inbox solution--the tabs do a good enough job for me.

 

[ohio.emt]

You can get fetch but not push basically using Apple's Mail app for regular Gmail accounts. Mailbox can do it by doing something along the lines of storing your credentials and basically using their servers to check on your behalf and then push notifications to you--basically they are middleman as far as accessing your email.

They might even have to download your mail to their server. Don't know about that for sure, but heard talk of it when google did away with push.

 

[groovyd]

Maybe you can tell me how to get Apple's Mail app to actually push me emails on time. All of my settings are to "push" and there is still about a 10 minute delay from when I get notifications from Mail versus Mailbox. I would like to use something native but not when most of my emails are time sensitive.

Use your iCloud given mail account which pushes received mail immediately. Apple's mail works nicely with Apple's mail servers, Gmail works nicely with Google's, mix and match and you gotta wait nothing really new here... your welcome.

 

[T14nte]

Not quite there yet

Rather annoying and unnecessary - great idea though.

I feel like if you are going to release something like this, it should be a replacement - not an addition

 

[neuropsychguy]

This is now my main Gmail email client. Google's normal Gmail client has been deleted (I wanted to like it but it was too clunky and buggy on iOS; plus, Google made it too difficult to delete emails - tap to select and then delete. It's much easier just to swipe and be done rather than swipe and confirm or swipe and archive {no, I don't want to archive emails. If I want to keep them, I'll keep them in my inbox}). It's not perfect but it works well to manage gmail addresses.

Reminder: It's best if you default to using Inbox online and not just in the app. That way you can better manage where emails go. I spent some time making sure emails went to the correct categories and now they are all sorted correctly.